Potential payouts for up to 300,000 Australian Facebook users in Cambridge Analytica settlement

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner announces deal with Meta over scandal that may have affected 300,000 users

EU launches €10bn space programme to rival Musk’s Starlink

UK not part of Iris2 project described as ‘a significant step towards Europe’s sovereignty and secure connectivity’

Social media platforms have work to do to comply with Online Safety Act, says Ofcom

Regulator publishes codes of practice and warns that largest sites are not following many of its measures

A volcanic explosion every 15 minutes: how Australia’s museums are turning to tech to lure us in

Museums are using VR and immersive experiences to boost attendances – and, while it can provide an amazing spectacle, critics say it can be an expensive distraction

Lisa Kudrow says Tom Hanks movie Here is ‘an endorsement for AI’

The former Friends star criticised the film which makes extensive use of an AI-driven tool called Metaphysic Live to de-age and face-swap actors

From UFOs to drones, the US fascination with – and fear of – ‘anomalous detections’

A first-of-its-kind public archive of UFO records opens in New Mexico as New Jersey is gripped by drone panic

Serbian authorities using spyware to illegally surveil activists, report finds

Advanced mobile forensics products being used to illegally extract data from mobile devices, Amnesty finds

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian vision

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system

She didn’t get an apartment because of an AI-generated score – and sued to help others avoid the same fate

Despite a stellar reference from a landlord of 17 years, Mary Louis was rejected after being screened by firm SafeRent

‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics

From voters picking up ‘bad vibes’ to the Brat girl summer, vague instincts now make the world go round. Does this represent a crisis of seriousness or has it always been feelings that make us human?

Snap out of it: Manchester club joins growing trend to ban phone cameras

Nightclub director says they ‘really want the music and experience to be at the forefront’, following in the footsteps of Berlin’s club scene

BBC says it has complained to Apple over AI-generated fake news attributed to broadcaster

Notifications from a new Apple product falsely suggested the BBC claimed the New York gunman Luigi Mangione had killed himself

What are the flying objects spotted in New Jersey?

Residents in several counties of the state have reported sighting drones, sometimes over military facilities

The Guardian view on AI’s power, limits, and risks: it may require rethinking the technology

OpenAI’s new ‘o1’ system seeks to solve the limits to growth but it raises concerns about control and the risks of smart machines